06/26/2014
With swaps markets becoming less liquid and more expensive, especially for longer-dated trades, some pension funds are winding back the clock and sourcing long-dated, real assets to hedge their liabilities. But the strategy carries its own risks, reports
06/25/2014
The key areas are structural market change, data and reporting, risk governance, conduct, culture and remuneration.
06/25/2014
BNP Paribas Securities Services launches front office outsourcing report
Drivers include the need to keep pace with new regulatory requirements, advances in technology and the need to diversify in new markets and instruments.
06/25/2014
The asset management industry has seen its fastest growth since the economic crisis
06/25/2014
Drivers include regulation, technology advances and need to diversify in new markets
06/24/2014
Asset managers need to adjust their distribution strategies, states accountancy group report.
06/24/2014
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing” - Robert Benchley
06/24/2014
In the survey taken at its June Investment Symposium, 50% of the 220 advisers polled said they would increase their usage of Exchange Traded Funds.
06/23/2014
Europe's banks are under siege from digital disruption, and must make huge IT investments to remain competitive
06/23/2014
"The lamps are going out all over Europe" was the first part of the famous and very prescient quote by Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War.
06/23/2014
New report ranks world’s most entrepreneurial countries
06/23/2014
Total inflows in the first five months of the year amounted to 43.6 billion euros.
06/20/2014
Asset management set for change
The asset management industry will be radically altered in the next 15 years
06/20/2014
Endiang invests in ARC expansion plans
The acquisition was agreed in principle in January, subject to contract discussions and regulatory and other approvals which have now been obtained.
06/20/2014
Why Investors Choose to Invest In Hedge Funds and How They Measure Performance - RESEARCH
London-based research firm Preqin today released a special report "The Real Value of Hedge Fund Investment," offering new, comprehensive data on the goals institutional investors set for hedge fund allocations and how they measure a fund's
06/20/2014
The Bank consistently forecasts that inflation will be on target within two years; after all, if it did not believe that, it should change policy. But inflation was above target for four years and is now below it.
06/19/2014
Recent figures have revealed that nearly a quarter of a million families are expected to pay Inheritance Tax over the next five years.
06/19/2014
FSP was created in 2014 with a vision of bringing professionals from academia and industry together to promote research in quantitative finance using engineering tools, with a special focus on signal processing and optimisation techniques.
06/19/2014
A limited European Union review of compliance with accounting rules regarding business combinations in financial statements raised several red flags, the European Securities and Markets Authority revealed this week.
06/19/2014
"I bowl so slow that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back” - JM Barrie